Telemann - Miriways | Pentatone PTC5186842

Telemann - Miriways

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5186842

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

Artists

Andre Morsch (baritone)
Robin Johannsen (soprano)
Sophie Karthauser (soprano)
Lydia Teuscher (soprano)
Michael Nagy (baritone)
Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)
Anett Fritsch (soprano)
Dominik Koninger (baritone)
Paul McNamara (tenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Conductor

Bernard Labadie

Works

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Miriways, TWV21:24

Artists

Andre Morsch (baritone)
Robin Johannsen (soprano)
Sophie Karthauser (soprano)
Lydia Teuscher (soprano)
Michael Nagy (baritone)
Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)
Anett Fritsch (soprano)
Dominik Koninger (baritone)
Paul McNamara (tenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Conductor

Bernard Labadie

About

Pentatone presents Telemann’s rarely-performed opera Miriways (1728) with a stellar cast and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by Bernard Labadie. Star vocalists such as André Morsch (Miriways), Robin Johannsen (Sophi), Sophie Karthäuser (Bemira), Lydia Teuscher (Nisibis) and Michael Nagy (Murzah) offer a string of beautiful baroque arias and scenes in this German-language opera. Miriways is a piece about love, duty and truthfulness, and was based on political events from that time in Afghanistan and Persia that actually made headlines in European newspapers, demonstrating the eighteenth-century fascination for the Orient. The opera was recorded live during the Telemann Festival Hamburg in 2017.

The Akademie für Alte Musik is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial Pentatone discography, including Cantata with Bejun Mehta (2018), as well as Handel’s Concerti grossi op.6 (released in 2019 and 2020). Robin Johannsen featured on Handel’s Parnasso in festa (2017). André Morsch, Sophie Karthäuser, Lydia Teuscher, Michael Nagy and Bernard Labadie make their Pentatone debut.

Cast:
- Miriways: André Morsch (baritone)
- Sophi: Robin Johannsen (soprano)
- Bemira: Sophie Karthäuser (soprano)
- Nisibis: Lydia Teuscher (soprano)
- Murzah: Michael Nagy (baritone)
- Samischa: Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo- soprano)
- Zemir: Anett Fritsch (soprano)
- Geist/Scandor: Dominik Köninger (baritone)
- Gesandter: Paul McNamara (tenor)

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